Hot off the press:
We're close to release, but not quite there yet! The Demos are now out for all to enjoy while we finish things up. Let me explain...
When we set out to remake CMSF1 into CMSF2 we made a decision to release the Base Game and the three Modules all at once. This allows people to purchase Bundles right away instead of facing the decision to buy sooner, one full priced piece at a time, or wait until we have everything out for a bulk discount. Since it would suck for you guys to face this choice we opted to release everything at once.
The downside of releasing everything at once is having to rework the content of effectively 4 games at one time. That's a total of something like 150 battles (stand alone + campaigns) that needed reworking. As you can imagine it's not just adding the updated style of Briefings, it's about making sure the scenarios are properly balanced with all the game changes from the past 10 years. Adding FoW fortifications, AI Plan overhauls, touching up maps, etc. and then going through the testing cycle make sure everything works right takes a long time to do. More than we expected, that's for sure.
OK, OK, OK... I know you're wondering what this all means in terms of a release timeframe. What we've decided to do is stop making you wait until every single scenario and the 6 campaigns are totally done. Instead, we're moving towards releasing all the stand alone scenarios, the Base Game campaign (TF Lighting), and the campaign for Marines (Semper Fi!) in one go. That's a couple hundred hours of entertainment right there, not to mention what QuickBattles adds to the mix. That should keep you busy while we finish reworking the British and three NATO campaigns
I don't think we can get it out the door by the end of October, but we don't want it to be much longer than that. We released Upgrade 4 at Christmas time last year and we'd rather not do that again for understandable reasons.
I'll give you guys another update at the end of the month.
Thanks for your patience! This has been a labor of love for sure, with almost equal emphasis on both the labor and the love!
Steve